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AbundantMischief @abundantmischief.bsky.social · 9h

Comprehensive sex education, including consent and STI risk mitigation for queer folks.

Financial literacy, including budgeting, credit scores, how to assess a credit card or loan offer, and how to do your taxes.

nai THEE corpse bride 🦋 @astoldbynai.blacksky.app · 15h

5. What is something that you would would be taught more in school?

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 9h

Great stuff. Just fucking great. Actual adult creators are drowning under censorship but the robot is allowed to give you bullshit no-ethics, no-soul erotica. Why not.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 13h

And like everything at BISH your funding keeps this free and ad free

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 16h

I'm experimenting with using Patreon to host audio readings for BISH articles (rather than having to pay for it on another platform), so I'm trialling this. Thank you to my Patreon and Donorbox supporters for helping to fund this.

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BISH - How to 'Get' a Girlfriend, Boyfriend or Themfriend - audio | BISH

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 14h

Which will remain free to listen / read of course

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 16h

I'm experimenting with using Patreon to host audio readings for BISH articles (rather than having to pay for it on another platform), so I'm trialling this. Thank you to my Patreon and Donorbox supporters for helping to fund this.

www.patreon.com/posts/141197...

BISH - How to 'Get' a Girlfriend, Boyfriend or Themfriend - audio | BISH

Get more from BISH on Patreon

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

"Perhaps you’re really not into this. Do you feel able to tell him? How will he respond do you think? Is there something else you could both do instead that would be even hotter for both of you? What if you asked him to be quiet, or put your hand on his mouth, or your finger on his lips?"

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

"The issue is that he is doing this fetish / fantasy at you and not with you. It would have been better if he had talked about it with you beforehand. Like a ‘just so you know, there’s this thing I enjoy doing …. how would you feel about me saying ….’ "

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

"There are some people who don’t care about whether their partner gets pregnant (or gets an infection) and there are people who do it deliberately. [You might want to read this] just in case, but this guy doesn’t sound like that from what you’ve said."

www.bishuk.com/safer-sex/pa...

Partner Putting You at Risk

What if your partner is putting you at risk of pregnancy or STIs. Here's some advice for you but also advice for them. Note the content warning below.

www.bishuk.com

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

"Fantasies don’t reflect ‘the real us’, they are just stories which we sometimes find helpful or sexy. Sometimes these stories can be the opposite of what we actually want in reality. He is using condoms and he says that he doesn’t actually want you to get pregnant, so this is the reality."

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

"So it sounds like these are just sexy thoughts and words that he likes to hear himself say in order to help him to cum, or to enjoy that moment, or whatever."

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

And here are some snippets if you can't be bothered to read the whole thing.

"When people have a fetish about something it is a fantasy, a story about something that helps them to get very turned on about something."

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 19h

This was very good and helped explain a lot. It's fun just fir the shaudenfruede, if nothing else.

Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 6d

"Staring down the path of existential destruction..." - @philbc3 on how the Conservatives' voter coalition is breaking apart as they lose their Gen X voters to Reform:

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 18h

This is a genuine question from a reader with genuine concerns, we don't make fun of them okay?

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

My advice for someone who is worried when he says that ‘he wants to put a baby inside her’. He says it’s a fetish and he doesn’t want to get her pregnant. Should she be worried? Is this a thing?

www.bishuk.com/your-questio...

He Talks About 'Putting a Baby Inside Me' ...

My advice for someone who is worried when he says that 'he wants to put a baby inside her'. He says it's a fetish: is it? Should she worry?

www.bishuk.com

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 20h

The Renters’ Rights Bill could soon become law.

Unfortunately, it does almost nothing to address sky-high rents that people just can’t afford.

But there is a solution the Government has barely considered: rent controls.

Common-sense, effective and popular.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 21h

It's not a 'race debate', it's plain old racism.

Carer health and safety is already a major issue that's barely discussed outside the profession, compounded by demand and extractive practices of employers.

Unfortunately this workforce, like those they care for, hold zero interest for most people

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers

Staff are being advised to travel in mixed groups and carry panic alarms as incidents of intimidation spread

www.theguardian.com

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Girl on the Net @girlonthenet.bsky.social · 1d

This forever and always.

~daniel_barker~ @daniel-barker.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah if you're outsourcing flirting to the machine I do think you're on the road to destroying the parts of you that make being alive worthwhile.

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

This was really helpful and well worth listening to (and supporting)

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · 1d

The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with @yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social, Mark Perryman , @profafinlayson.bsky.social and me is now online and in every podcast app: culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t....

The Starmer Disaster

A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…

culturepowerpolitics.org

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 1d

Something I've noticed recently is questioning AI, including catastrophic environmental impact, is greeted with suspicion. As if you're showing your ignorance by not being an eager adopter. Whereas those claiming to know it all and promising everything are welcomed - especially by government.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

“These findings follow previous research which concluded that the more people learn about how AI works, the less they trust it. The opposite was also true — AI’s biggest fanboys tended to be those who understood the least about the tech.”

The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It

A preliminary report shows that researchers' confidence in AI software dropped off a cliff over the last year.

futurism.com

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

My advice for someone who is worried when he says that ‘he wants to put a baby inside her’. He says it’s a fetish and he doesn’t want to get her pregnant. Should she be worried? Is this a thing?

www.bishuk.com/your-questio...

He Talks About 'Putting a Baby Inside Me' ...

My advice for someone who is worried when he says that 'he wants to put a baby inside her'. He says it's a fetish: is it? Should she worry?

www.bishuk.com

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

I spent my Monday morning writing about breeding kink. Thanks to my wonderful crowd-funders for keeping BISH alive. Thousands of people visit this resource every day and have done for about 15 years now. I fund it myself but also have a Patreon. Chip in if you can.

www.bishuk.com/your-questio...

He Talks About 'Putting a Baby Inside Me' ...

My advice for someone who is worried when he says that 'he wants to put a baby inside her'. He says it's a fetish: is it? Should she worry?

www.bishuk.com

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

Online youth work could also have been more of a thing if it weren't so defunded. Apparently it is more of a thing in Europe. I'm a bit out of touch now tbh

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beardyslo.bsky.social @beardyslo.bsky.social · 1d

As a trained youth worker i often feel like some victorian time traveller explaining a long lost job that no longer exists like Lamplighter.

Except youth work hasn't been made obsolete by technology. It was identified as a threat and aggressively defunded.

Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

The destruction of statutory youth services in the UK, particularly England, is criminal. (F the guardian and better late than never, but not much better). A biography🧵

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 1d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social · 1d

The handwringing about young people and phones and all that is overblown, but certainly youth and community work would help. If any commentator bangs on about phones / social media and doesn't mention the destruction of youth services you'll know that they are just creating a moral panic.

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